Ian Bremmer

and Israel are doing.

They're taking out the commanders and the infrastructure and

and the bases of the besieged domestic security force.

They're taking out the leaders and the infrastructure and the personnel of the IRGC.

Now, as you know, the history of uprisings and when they're successful and when they're not, we always get it wrong.

No one ever sees it coming.

Who knows?

You know, everyone was anticipating that Kiev would fall, you know, after 72 hours when Russia invaded Ukraine.

Everyone was saying that the Taliban, you know, would never fall after the U.S.

went into Afghanistan.

after 9-11.

I mean, the intelligence community didn't see the fall of the Soviet Union.

No, absolutely not.

So getting it right is very hard to anticipate.

There's a whole flywheel of what has to be in place.

But I got to believe if the Iranian people have this history of taking enormous risks to challenge this regime, they probably will be more inspired to do so when they see that what is left of this regime is a shadow of itself as a result of what the U.S.

and Israel are doing right now.

it may be easier for them to do something about that regime than it was just a few months ago.

We saw what happened just two months ago.

Over 30,000 Iranians were slaughtered in like a couple of days.